Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maidish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: maid-ish
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.

adj

Example Sentences

"He played a maidish man, who looked after the house while his suffragette wife supported the family. Looking through an old chest he finds a bottle of something called "Scotch" and gets drunk and sings "Poor Downtrodden Man.""
"In December 1919 she was forty-five years old and more aware than ever that her destiny was to be a maidish one: to look after her ageing mother (by whom she was permanently irritated), to offer emotional succour to her younger siblings […]"

Etymology

From maid + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: maid

Inflected Forms

more maidish (comparative) most maidish (superlative)

Questions

What does maidish mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.
Where does maidish come from?: From maid + -ish.

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